I think sometimes you just get teams who match up well against you and IMO Emirates Marketing Project are a team who are a good match up for Spurs at the moment.
We play a high line relying on Sanchez’s pace to get us out of trouble and push our full backs high up the pitch to provide us width and stretch the opposition to create space for Eriksen and Ali centrally. Emirates Marketing Project’s attacking pace means that they are good odds to get onto a ball in behind us to expose our high line. Sanchez is able to win the foot race against the attackers of most teams in the league, just not Emirates Marketing Project (or Liverpool). Also the fact that Emirates Marketing Project play two very attacking wide players in Sane and Sterling means that our fullbacks find it very difficult to get forward due to the risk of leaving us exposed to Emirates Marketing Project’s pace from wide areas. Silva was also too mobile and clever with his movement for Dier, which gives them a central focus point to launch their attacks. On the occasions when we did get forward Kane was unable to bully Kompany, so we didn’t really get any joy there, and our fullbacks being deeper than usual means that Emirates Marketing Project were able to defend the central areas with numbers making it very difficult for us to create chances. To beat Emirates Marketing Project with our current personnel I wonder whether Pochettino will have to move away from his reasonably purist tactics, look to defend deeper, protect the middle, keep two central midfielders deep at all times, go longer towards Kane and have three attacking midfield runners (say Son and Moura for their pace and then either Eriksen or Ali to add a bit of guile) in behind Kane to feed off the scraps able to exploit the fact that Emirates Marketing Project have so many players high up the pitch.
